Abandoned Engineering(2017)

Name: Abandoned Engineering
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-02-18
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Tom Ward

Ambitious engineering projects that have been left in ruins.

★ 7.2(17)44m145 episodesReturning Series

Documentary

These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.

First aired:: 2017-02-18
Country:: GB
Network:: U&Yesterday

Episodes

Series 1(6)Series 2(8)Series 3(8)Series 4(12)Series 5(8)Series 6(11)Series 7(12)Series 8(12)Series 9(12)Series 10(12)Season 11(8)Season 12(8)Season 13(8)Season 14(8)Season 15(12)

1. Hollywood Heroes
★ 7.0
2021-01-13 · 44m
Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.
2. Stalin's Subway
★ 10.0
2021-01-20 · 44m
In North Wales a secret facility which once manufactured mustard gas and enriched uranium lies in ruins. In Malta is a luxurious quarantine facility, that hides a dark secret.
3. Disaster At The Maya Hotel
★ 9.0
2021-01-27 · 44m
Ruins of a vast industrial ghost town in the United States, a windswept Scottish island and the remains of a resort in Japan that watched a city burn.
4. Murder Underground
★ 8.0
2021-02-03 · 44m
An engineering masterpiece carved into the cliff-face, and a long-range beacon that transmitted one of the most infamous messages in American history.
5. El Dorado Canyon
★ 7.0
2021-02-10 · 44m
An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost, and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.
6. The Mafia Bunker
★ 7.0
2021-02-17 · 44m
An iron monster lost in the Alaskan tundra, a Crusader fort thrown into a modern conflict, and a prison built to house a mafia kingpin.
7. Ruins of the Rust Belt
★ 7.0
2021-02-24 · 44m
A real-life concrete jungle in America's 'Rust Belt', and an industrial facility that brought energy to a remote corner of the world.
8. American Ghost Park
★ 8.0
2021-03-03 · 44m
A Middle Eastern region littered with ruins and a strange facility in Taiwan that struck fear into the hearts of those who knew its true purpose.
9. Fortress of the Sky
★ 8.0
2021-03-10 · 44m
Eerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state.
10. Catastrophe and Cover Up
★ 7.0
2021-03-17 · 44m
A volcanic island just off Taiwan containing chilling ruins from its darkest era, and a miniature railway that lies forgotten in the woods of Arkansas.
11. Dead Sea Disaster
★ 10.0
2021-03-24 · 44m
A fairy-tale castle that staged one of the strangest stories of the Second World War and a haunting complex on an old American Frontier.
12. Global Icons
★ 10.0
2021-03-31 · 44m
Bizarrely-shaped huts in India, once home to global superstars, are now eerily quiet and neglected, and a shattered compound in Colombia linked to a criminal mastermind.